dudemursestudent

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1. How Do You Administer The Following Meds?

   dudemursestudent replied to All4NursingRN's topic in Medications

   For diprivan (propofol) you also need to be aware of the possibility, although rare, of propofol infusion syndrome. This is characterized by cardiac arrhythmias, metabolic acidosis, circulatory collapse. Early cardiac signs can include brugada like...

2. Vented Patient PEA

   dudemursestudent replied to whitecat5000's topic in General Nursing

   check a pulse, or look at the wave form on the pulse ox or arterial line. Pulse is always front line assessment though

3. Palp pressure traumatic hypotension

   dudemursestudent replied to dudemursestudent's topic in MICU

   Sorry i didn't make my self clear, i'm talking about working in the prehospital environment, when transporting a pt to a hospital with suspected internal bleeding and administering iV fluids you do not want to raise the blood pressure too high so th...

4. Palp pressure traumatic hypotension

   dudemursestudent posted a topic in MICU

   So I'm in nursing school and i've been an EMT for a while, we always talk that in general the systolic BP is at least 90 if you can palp a radial pulse. But in trauma and internal hemorrhage you want to keep the systolic low to slow bleeding, someti...